by Brianna Crandall — December 3, 2010—The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has published several resources in recent weeks covering such workplace safety and health issues as prevention through design, workplace chemical hazards, assaults on nursing assistants, and blood lead levels. The new publications include:
- NIOSH Update: NIOSH releases Prevention Through Design (PtD) Plan: Transformative Goals, Strategies for Job Safety and Health
- NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards CD ROM (Pub. No. 2010-168c)
- NIOSH Science Blog: Assaults on Nursing Assistants
- Prevention Through Design: Plan for the National Initiative (NIOSH Pub. No. 2011-121)
- Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance (ABLES) Interactive Database
- NIOSH Update: NIOSH Posts New Database Resource on Rates, Trends in Elevated Blood Lead Levels
- NIOSH Docket Item for Comment: Reevaluation of the NIOSH policy on emergency escape support breathing system or “buddy-breather” device used with open-circuit self-contained breathing apparatus (NIOSH Docket Number 147)
- NIOSH Docket Item for Comment: Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Combination Respirator Unit (CRU) (NIOSH Docket Number 082-A)
- NIOSH Alert: Preventing Deaths and Injuries of Fire Fighters Using Risk Management Principles at Structure Fires (Spanish) Prevencin de muertes y lesiones de bomberos mediante el uso de principios de gestin de riesgos en incendios de estructuras
- NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards CD ROM (Pub. No. 2010-168c)
